Kharge Or Tharoor? Congress Set To Announce Party President Today

New Delhi: The Congress occasion is all set to get its first non-Gandhi president after 24 years immediately. Mallikarjun Kharge and Sashi Tharoor are pitted towards one another for the occasion’s high put up. Greater than 9500 delegates voted to elect the occasion’s subsequent president on Monday. The voting was completed between 10 AM and 4 PM.

The counting of votes will happen on the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters. The voting was completed at 36 polling stations throughout the nation with 67 cubicles. Together with the poll bins, senior occasion leaders may even attain Delhi on the day of the outcomes.

Senior occasion leaders, together with Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, are additionally anticipated to be current in Delhi for the counting and the consequence. No member of the Gandhi household is contesting for the put up of occasion president.

It isn’t the primary time {that a} non-Gandhi chief is contesting for the occasion presidency post-Independence, Jitendra Prasad contested for the put up of the president about 22 years in the past towards Sonia Gandhi wherein Sonia emerged as a winner holding the mantle of the occasion for 20 years.

Sonia Gandhi is the longest-serving president of the occasion, having held the workplace for over twenty years from 1998 to 2017 and since 2019. That is the sixth time in its practically 137-year-old historical past that polls shall be held to elect the President of the occasion. Within the 2017 elections, Rahul Gandhi turned the president unopposed.

“There isn’t any drawback with our ideology however I need to carry a change in our method of labor… Mallikarjun Kharge is an skilled chief, if he wins, we’ll work in cooperation naturally,” Congress Presidential candidate Shashi Tharoor had mentioned forward of the polls, as reported by the information company ANI.

“It is my obligation to strengthen the org & combat vindictive insurance policies of BJP-RSS, they’re dividing the nation on foundation of faith; they’re dividing the backward, scheduled castes, minorities. They see every thing by means of an election viewpoint,” ANI quoted Kharge as saying forward of the polls

“We have to combat from parliament to avenue. It is troublesome as unemployment& inflation are there, GDP development is falling, the worth of rupee goes down, petrol-diesel & important commodities’ costs are going up,’ he added.

(With ANI Inputs)